3 Foot Clearance

Studio album by Buckethead

Released

December 21, 2010 (limited edition)
August 17, 2011 (regular edition)

Genre

Experimental metal, funk metal, hard rock, avant garde, alternative rock

Length

40:23

Label

Bucketheadland

Producer

Dan Monti and Albert

Buckethead chronology

Captain EO's Voyage
(2010)

3 Foot Clearance
(2010)

It's Alive
(2011)

Alternative Cover

One of the limited edition covers

3 Foot Clearance (previously known as Untitled or Happy Holidays from Buckethead) is the thirtieth studio album by guitarist Buckethead, and the third installment of the Buckethead Pikes Series. The album was originally released on December 21, 2010 as a limited edition which came with a handmade holiday greeting card drawn by Buckethead, as well as a discount to buy the regular edition for purchasers of the limited version.

The album features the tribute song Buckethead had done to the late graffiti writer and hip hop artist Rammellzee, who died on June 28, 2010. The track was released on Buckethead's web page a day prior to the album's release and Dickerson announced that it would be included in the album.^[1] Buckethead and Rammellzee collaborated on several albums from the supergroup Praxis, most notably on Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness).^[2]^[3] In contrast to earlier releases in 2010, this album is a return to a more traditional writing style for Buckethead, with faster playing throughout, constant shifts in mood and feel, and liberal use of effects.

On August 17, the regular edition was made available through the Buckethead Pikes website along with two other albums Underground Chamber and Look Up There.^[4] For the regular edition release, the track listing order changed.

Track listing

Regular edition version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Griffin's Spike"	4:09
2.	"Rammellzee: Hero of the Abyss"	4:02
3.	"Floating Graveyard"	3:20
4.	"Ballad of Jerry Mono"	4:57
5.	"H.D. Autopsy"	3:20
6.	"Droid Hunt"	2:46
7.	"Battlefields"	3:12
8.	"Handprint Ornament"	2:48
9.	"Three Headed Guardian"	3:58
10.	"Harpoon the Goon"	2:30
11.	"Critical Leg Assignment"	2:35
12.	"Siamese Butterfly"	1:56
13.	"X-Ray"	0:49
Total length:		40:23

Limited edition version

The limited edition came without track names and a different track order. Below is the order of the limited edition with the titles from the regular edition.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Griffin's Spike"	4:09
2.	"Rammellzee: Hero of the Abyss"	4:02
3.	"Three Headed Guardian"	3:58
4.	"Floating Graveyard"	3:20
5.	"Ballad of Jerry Mono"	4:57
6.	"H.D. Autopsy"	3:20
7.	"Droid Hunt"	2:46
8.	"Battlefields"	3:12
9.	"Handprint Ornament"	2:48
10.	"Harpoon the Goon"	2:30
11.	"Critical Leg Assignment"	2:35
12.	"Siamese Butterfly"	1:56
13.	"X-Ray"	0:49
Total length:		40:23

Credits

Produced by Dan Monti and Albert.
Programming and Bass by Brewer.
Ride Mechanics and Bass by Buckethead.
Illustrations by Frankenseuss.

Notes

Track #8 (#9 on the limited edition release), "Handprint Ornament", is spelled Handdprint Ornament on the back of the album sleeve.
This album returns to the 13 song pattern which is a common theme for Buckethead albums. The last studio album to feature 13 tracks was Needle in a Slunk Stack, released in 2009.
With a total length of 40:23, this is the longest album in the Buckethead Pikes series to date, while the rest of the Pikes run closer to 30 minutes each.
The title of the album came from the cover. ^[5]
Color scheme for the cover was inspired by a Power Man and Iron Fist comic. ^[6]

Pressing History

Year	Label	Format	Country	Notes	Sold Out
2010	TDRS Music	CD	U.S.	1st batch	Yes
2011	TDRS Music	CD	U.S.	2nd batch	Yes
2011	TDRS Music	CD	U.S.	3rd batch	Yes
2011	Buckethead Pikes	CD	U.S.	Regular Edition	No

References

External links

Download Rammelzee from Bucketheadland

Buckethead

Solo discography

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
Electric Sea (2012)

Pikes series

2010	3 Foot Clearance

2011	It's Alive Empty Space Underground Chamber Look Up There

2012	Balloon Cement The Shores of Molokai Racks March of the Slunks The Silent Picture Book

2013	Forgotten Library Propellar Pike 13 The Mark of Davis Pike 15 The Boiling Pond The Spirit Winds Pike 18 Teeter Slaughter Thaw Spiral Trackway Sphere Facade Telescape Slug Cartilage Pancake Heater Worms for the Garden Halls of Dimension Feathers Splatters Mannequin Cemetery Pearson's Square Rise of the Blue Lotus Pumpkin Thank you Ohlinger's The Pit Hollowed Out It Smells Like Frogs Twisterlend Pikes Coat of Charms Wishes

2014	Backwards Chimney Pike 43 You Can't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp The Coats of Claude Rainy Days Roller Coaster Track Repair Hide in the Pickling Jar Monument Valley Pitch Dark Claymation Courtyard Factory City of Ferris Wheels The Frankensteins Monsters Blinds The Miskatonic Scale Cycle Night Gallery Outpost Ydrapoej Footsteps Citacis Outlined for Citacis Grand Gallery Aquarium Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom Nancy York Carroll) Leave the Light On Abandoned Slaughterhouse Assignment 033-03 Pike 69 Snow Slug Celery Closed Attractions Final Bend of the Labyrinth Infinity Hill Twilight Constrictor Pike 76 Bumbyride Dreamlands Pike 78 Geppetos Trunk Cutout Animatronic Carnival of Cartilage Calamity Cabin Dreamless Slumber Whirlpool Walk in Loset Our Selves Interstellar Slunk Red Pepper Restaurant The Time Travelers Dream Listen for the Whisper Pike 91 The Splatterhorn Coaster Coat Magic Lantern Northern Lights Yarn Passageways Pilot Polar Trench The Mighty Microscope In The Hollow Hills

2015	Sideway Streets Squid Ink Lodge Project Little Man The Moltrail Forest of Bamboo Weird Glows Gleam Collect Itself The Left Panel Wall To Wall Cobwebs Night of the Snow Mole Creaky Doors and Creaky Floors Herbie Theatre Glow in the Dark Marble Monsters Infinity of the Spheres Vacuum Elevator Pike 119 Louzenger Shaded Ray The Other Side of the Dark Scroll of Vegetable Rotten Candy Cane Along the River Bank Tourist Paint to the Tile Tucked Into Dreams Forever Lake Down in the Bayou Part Two Down in the Bayou Part One Chamber of Drawers Embroidery Digging Under the Basement Haunted Roller Coaster Chair Firebolt Hideous Phantasm Giant Claw Observation Hats and Glasses Last Call for the E.P. Ripley Nautical Nightmares Blank Bot Scream Sundae Kareem's Footprint Carrotcature Popcorn Shells Invisable Forest Chickencoopscope Heaven is your Home (For my Father, Thomas Manley Carroll) Fog Gardens Carnival Cutouts Whisper Track The Cellar Yawns Ancient Lens Herbie Climbs a Tree Upside Down Skyway Twisted Branches Half Circle Bridge Land of Miniatures Bats in the Lite Brite Four Forms Blue Tide Ghoul Orange Tree Region Shapeless Ognarader The Windowsill Washed Away A Ghost Took My Homework Crest of the Hill The Blob Last House on Slunk Street Quilted 31 Days Til Halloween: Visitor From The Mirror 30 Days Til Halloween: Swollen Glasses 29 Days Til Halloween: Blurmwood 28 Days Til Halloween: The Insides of the Outsides 27 Days Til Halloween: Cavern Guide 26 Days Til Halloween: Bogwitch 25 Days Til Halloween: Window Fragment 24 Days Til Halloween: Screaming Scalp 23 Days Til Halloween: Wax 22 Days Til Halloween: I Got This Costume From The Sears Catalog 21 Days Til Halloween: Cement Decay 20 Days Til Halloween: Forgotten Experiment 19 Days Til Halloween: Light in Window 18 Days Til Halloween: Blue Squared 17 Days Til Halloween: 1079 16 Days Til Halloween: Cellar 15 Days Til Halloween: Grotesques 14 Days Til Halloween: Voice From The Dead Forest 13 Days Til Halloween: Maple Syrup 12 Days Til Halloween: Face Sling Shot 11 Days Til Halloween: Reflection 10 Days Til Halloween: Residue 9 Days Til Halloween: Eye on Spiral 8 Days Til Halloween: Flare Up 7 Days Til Halloween: Cavernous 6 Days Til Halloween: Underlair 5 Days Til Halloween: Scrapbook Front 4 Days Til Halloween: Silent Photo 3 Days Til Halloween: Crow Hedge 2 Days Til Halloween: Cold Frost Happy Halloween: Silver Shamrock 365 Days Til Halloween: Smash The Wishing Brook Rooms of Illusions Sunken Parlor Screen Door Hornet Crumple Trace Candle Teflecter Wheels of Ferris Pike Doors Old Toys Rain Drops on Christmas

2016	Mirror Realms

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)
Grab Bag #1 (1995)
Grab Bag #2 (1996)
Grab Bag #3 (1998)

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994)
"Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994)
"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005)
"Three Fingers" (2005)
Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

Bands and projects

Artists	Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan "Brain" Mantia Brain and Melissa Reese Brain and Travis Dickerson Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen

Bands	Cobra Strike Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps El Stew Frankenstein Brothers Giant Robot Gorgone Guns N' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis Buckethead & Brain (Pieces)

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